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Article: English Historical Drama, 1550-1660: Forms Outside the Canon.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2008
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Teresa Grant and Barbara Ravelhofer, eds. English Historical Drama, 1550-1660: Forms Outside the Canon.
Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 206 pp. index. $69.95. ISBN: 978-1-4039-4849-6.
Despite the work done by people like Irving Ribner in the 1950s, there is still a critical proclivity toward defining the English history play by Shakespeare's works. Certainly Shakespeare wrote the most famous and enduring history plays, and the success of the Henry VI plays in their time may have spurred imitators and led to a boom in historical drama in the public theaters of the 1590s, but Shakespeare did not invent the ...